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In Autumn of 1980, Harve Bennett (pictured above on…

In Autumn of 1980, Harve Bennett (pictured above on the set of The Six Million Dollar Man) had been hired by Paramount Pictures to produce the sequel to Star Trek: The Motion Picture, tentatively entitled Star Trek: The Movie II. The first piece of correspondence related to the production was a memo he sent to Gary Nardino, the president of Paramount Television. It read as follows:

November 13, 1980

Dear Gary,Per your request, I am enclosing my first thumbnail sketch of the story I have proposed for the next Star Trek feature. Though brief, I think it includes all areas I feel essential to this project.

Regards,Harve

While War of the Generationswas only the beginning and would be heavily revised, it was an auspicious, character-driven start for the second movie’s production.